Expo Push Notifications at Amazon SNS

Is it possible to integrate Expo app with Amazon SNS push notification server? I would like to use external push notifications server.

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hey @sherkan4444, here are some posts on the same topic:

the tldr; is that expo doesnt support non-expo push services at the moment unless you detach (integrating with other push providers requires you to include native code because they have to do similar things)

Hi

We managed it for our app without detaching.

Expo will let you get the device token from GCM and APNS. Have a look at this

https://docs.expo.io/versions/v27.0.0/sdk/notifications

Expo.Notifications.getDevicePushTokenAsync

Once you’ve got the token, you will obviously need to send it to whatever PN server solution you’re going to use. This will be the hardest part.

We had some gotchas in the formatting of the json message that gets delivered to the device, but expo was able to serve it to the users phone on both android and iOS and open the app up.

Also, obviously you will not retrieve a token via an emulator or a published expo app via the client. It’s got to be a published APK or an IPA.

Read the bottom of this for an idea of the format, but expo have said this may change in later sdks https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/guides/push-notifications

Also, we are on SDK 24. I know there’s been some changes with FCM but docs indicate it should be the same.

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thanks for the explanation @davidbova!

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